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Day of marriage May 6, 1942

• The temperature on May 6, 1942 was between 4.7 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 12.0 hours of sunshine (79%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1942: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
  • February 8 » World War II: Japan invades Singapore.
  • March 5 » World War II: Japanese forces capture Batavia, capital of Dutch East Indies, which is left undefended after the withdrawal of the KNIL garrison and Australian Blackforce battalion to Buitenzorg and Bandung.
  • March 22 » World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, the Royal Navy confronts Italy's Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte.
  • August 17 » World War II: U.S. Marines raid the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin.
  • September 3 » World War II: In response to news of its coming liquidation, Dov Lopatyn leads an uprising in the Ghetto of Lakhva (present-day Belarus).
  • December 2 » World War II: During the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.

Day of death May 23, 2013

• The temperature on May 23, 2013 was between 4.0 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 6.8 mm of rain during 5.8 hours. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In the year 2013: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
  • June 26 » Riots in China's Xinjiang region kill at least 36 people and injure 21 others.
  • August 8 » A suicide bombing at a funeral in the Pakistani city of Quetta kills at least 31 people.
  • August 9 » Gunmen open fire at a Sunni mosque in the city of Quetta killing at least ten people and injuring 30.
  • August 19 » The Dhamara Ghat train accident kills at least 37 people in the Indian state of Bihar.
  • November 8 » Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, strikes the Visayas region of the Philippines; the storm left at least 6,340 people dead with over 1,000 still missing, and caused $2.86 billion (2013 USD) in damage.
  • November 19 » A double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut kills 23 people and injures 160 others.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2012 » Paul Fussell, American historian, author, and academic (b. 1924)
• 2013 » Epy Guerrero, Dominican baseball player, coach, and scout (b. 1942)
• 2013 » Flynn Robinson, American basketball player (b. 1941)
• 2013 » Georges Moustaki, Egyptian-French singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1934)
• 2013 » Hayri Kozakçıoğlu, Turkish police officer and politician, 15th Governor of Istanbul Province (b. 1938)
• 2014 » Mikhail Egorovich Alekseev, Russian linguist and academic (b. 1949)